On Saturday 21 June 2003 08:58 pm, Crak600 - Michael wrote: > Ok, here's the situation. my new 100GB hard drive showed up today. i need > to put it into the computer and get everything set up. here's the way i > plan to set up..... > > 20GB hard drive i currently have - all for windows > 100GB hard drive - 80GB for mandrake, 20GB for windows (that's my current > plan, might go 60 linux 40 windows) > > i plan to use 2 hard drives, as neither of them is slow or old, only > difference between them is the 20GB has a 4MB buffer and the 100GB has a > 8MB buffer. both 7200rpm. > > now, here's where i need help...... > > which drive would i make the primary drive? my thought is that i'd make > the 100GB drive the primary drive, as the computer would have to access > linux before windows to give me the dual boot option, correct? > > Secondly...does the drive's position on the ribbon matter? i'm running 2 > things on that ribbon currently, the 20GB drive and my CDRW drive. this is > only the first computer i've owned that i've actually torn apart and put > back together hardware wise, once while trouble shooting for a defective > sound card, the other time doing a case swap. so i'm not all that familiar > with hooking up new hardware. > > i know if i make the 100GB drive the primary, i have to switch the jumper > on the 20GB drive to make it the secondary. > > and a final question.....i'm running an ASUS KV7-RM motherboard that has > all the bios updates done to it, so that's a plus, but will i have to enter > the bios settings once i plug the new drive in? > > as far as how i'm going to work with linux....i havn't decided if i'm giong > to do a fresh install and wipe out the old install or if i'm going to try > to move the current install to the new drive (someone already gave me a > link that explains how to do that). that's something i'll decide for > myself once i get to that point. > > thanks in advance for any help! > > Mike
Mike: You sound a bit confused about drive terminology. At the risk of telling you something that you already know, here's a short primer: Your board has two IDE slots (or channels). One is the primary, the other is the secondary. Each channel can handle both a master and slave drive. The drive jumpers determine whether a drive is to be the master or slave, but have nothing to do whether it is on the primary or secondary channel. It sounds as if your current setup has both drives on the primary channel with the HD as master and the CDRW as slave. My advice would be to leave the old HD as the primary master. Why confuse Windows more than it already is? You could install the new drive on the secondary channel and leave it jumpered as master; this arrangement is least apt to confuse Windows. However, my choice is to install the new drive on the primary channel as slave, and move the CDRW to the secondary channel as master. Check your BIOS settings that all of the IDE drives are set to Auto Detect (or whatever) -- and also that the secondary channel has not been turned off. I'll leave it to others to discuss partitioning schemes (it's been an active topic lately), but remember that you don't have to partition the whole damn 100 GB now. -- cmg
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